US Patent Issued to Conmed on April 29 for "Hip access portal saver" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,189, issued on April 29, was assigned to Conmed Corp. (Utica, N.Y.).

"Hip access portal saver" was invented by Benjamin Willard (Clearwater, Fla.), Eric Stubkjaer (Gulfport, Fla.), Thomas Kehoe (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) and Kevin Quintero (Safety Harbor, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portal saver device for installing a flexible cannulated tube at a surgical site. A portal saver device includes an obturator. The obturator has an obturator body having a cannulated outer obturator tube extending therethrough. The outer obturator tube has a distal tip with a dilating assembly movable between a collapsed, first configuration and an e...